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Hurdles in getting green card

11 Dec, 2011

Text: Ishani Duttagupta, ET Bureau

Ashish Kumar (name changed on request), an engineering graduate from Nagpur, went to the US in 2003 to work for an IT company in New Jersey. His employer got the non-immigrant H1B visa for him, and after two years filed the green card petition under employmentbased category 3, for permanent resident status. Now after seven years, Kumar is still waiting for his green card, even as the maximum six years allowed under the H1B visa is over.

He is living in the US under annual extensions of H1B, and every time he leaves the US, he has to apply for advance parole with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, so that he is not stopped from re-entering. Kumar doesn't know when his application for green card will become current.